Article January 27, 1951 Issue

"WHY WILL YE DIE?"

LESTER B. MC COUN

Christian Science confirms and affirms the spiritual import of the Scriptures. It recognizes the need of conquering every error and neither evades nor ignores any requirement of its healing mission. It exposes the fallacy of every erroneous belief. Christian Science never establishes belief in a power other than God, eternal Life, and never inculcates fear.

The prophet Ezekiel writes (18:31), "Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die. O house of Israel?" Ezekiel's inquiry is never satisfactorily answered by the mistaken charge that all must die, as medical theories and ecclesiastical doctrines affirm. Mortal mind, unable to distinguish between spiritual good and a material sense of good, the latter often being wrong, fails to recognize the false foundation on which all ignorance of God and reality rests. So-called material evidence is not conclusive with Christian Scientists. To those instructed in the truth of being it is evident, and must be accepted, that since sin, sickness, death, and matter are no part of God, eternal Life, they are no part of the divine creation, including man. The belief that all must die is directly opposed to Jesus' elucidation of eternal life as not in matter but in Spirit.

Mary Baker Eddy writes in the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 426), "Sin brought death, and death will disappear with the disappearance of sin." Mrs. Eddy goes directly to the fundamentals of right spiritual education and gives a specific definition of sin which leaves no student of her writings in doubt as to its unreal nature, and which has resulted in healing for many. She states (Retrospection and Introspection, p. 67): "Sin was, and is, the lying supposition that life, substance, and intelligence are both material and spiritual, and yet are separate from God. The first iniquitous manifestation of sin was a finity." The Apostle Paul writes that it was by one man that sin entered into the world, and death by sin.

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